Pressure Tactics
Yay is very personable
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I love that Yay refers to this as a stratagem.
Just to say it, the absolute loser who took down QC dot net is an absolute loser But now I kinda want to pay Jeph many cash dollars to draw a pic of my family! Hey, any QC readers in Iceland? Heading to that gorgeous & amazing island this week!
Personable *and* clueless…
Wonder how much effort it took for Yay to realize the truth about the buttfor. It wasn’t a non-negligible amount of time/processing power.
Might have been as much as 7 milliseconds.
The buttfor requires very careful calibration.
That’s where you apply the pressure tactics.
When you put too much in INT and 0 in WIS.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/roland-the-farter-professional-flatulence
I like Yay, but they need to learn some tact.
I think that's why Yay needs more socialization. Also, I'm starting to suspect Roko sent Yay out partially so she could get a break. She loves Yay, but, even so, I'm sure Yay can be very exhausting.
Yay is so very personable because they are more persons than most people.
Yay only has one body now.
All of you are frickin' adorable. There's too many awesome pun jokes to compliment them all 👏👏😂 No wonder Roko sent Yay out to "socialize" if this is the Mood they woke up in. Is Yay still charging at Aurelia's or have they joined their wardrobe at Roko's apartment? 🤔 Maybe alternating... 🤭... since the greyhounds live with Cosmo.
I can see a big reveal and plot twist and drama as it becomes known that Yay is staying at Aurelia's and Roko's not alternately, but simultaneously. "We are so magnificently devious, of course we thought nobody would catch on!"
Yay is immensely intelligent and perceptive, however has the social skills of a 3 year old. ~<3
Yay perceives everything that is not people being tired of Yay, because how could they be xD
Yay is coming on a leettle bit too strong.
He does that to people he likes. With zero clue he is aggravating them.
I feel like after Yays dismissal of its existence, Ahn needs to walk in holding a buttfor. A tool used to measure and adjust the butt of a chassis for optimal sitting ability.
A little work with a fabricator and voila! Yay stomps out in a snit.
Yay needs to be careful. We've seen Roko put them in a headlock and give them noggin noogies, so Faye may very well be capable of ripping their head off, s̶h̶i̶ defecating in their lungs (or whatever's down the hole) and being inclined to do so. (Is Yay related to Mister Mxyzptlk?)
The imp knows he is irritating and revels in it. Yay has no idea why they are not the constant center of attention because they are totally fascinating.
My hip bicultural 20 year old offspring would ID Yay as demonstrating 8th Grader Syndrome, thinking that being a big fish in a little pond translates to the wider world. Not grokking 14 year olds feel like “fresh meat” to the older teens when they enter High School. I’m sure they’re a genius but their emotion growth hasn’t caught up. Yet. All things are possible.
Given Faye's feelings about Anh I think this demonstrates how much she's grown over the course of the comics. Go Faye!
They're so HORRIBLE why aren't they making out with me
Yay struggles with interdimensional travel still. They'll get there somewhen, though.
Buttfor a nail, I coulda had a well-shod horse!
"That carbon microfiber matrix is hard to digest."
Yay was this close to a coffee shampoo.
Yeah... Yay has definitely retained a good partion of their abilities -- which makes sense. Even with wanting and needing to amend their multiplicity and hive mind nature, I just couldn't see them also effectively lobotomising themselves in the process.
Also, things like being able to do a non-contact medical scan on someone may be functions of their chassis rather than their mind. And that chassis is still the one designed by super-Yay.
QC is still out. We (viz., Jeph's readers_ are very angry at at an as-yet-unidentified Complete Jerk. [Caps intentional], and wish Jeph all good fortune in reassembling the site.
I'd prefer to call the hacker an ASSOHOLIC, Ursus. Otherwise I am in complete agreement with you.
There buttfor the grace of God goes Anh.
Arrgh. (Well done.)
Yay is right, there is no longer any such thing. They *used* to have a buttfour, of course. Also a butttwo, a buttthree, and at least buttfive through buttnine. But sadly now they are left with but one buttone.
My mind wants to mispronounce your last word as butt-tone. Almost like a band name (The Mighty Mighty Butt-Tones?).
Faye took the brain cell from Marten
Yay is a lot less competent than they used to be.
This is the fake Yay-emulator diverting attention from the real Yay hiding in the Overthinking Depths.
It's strange seeing Anh in a conversation where she's not the weird socially inept one.
For sale, bespoke robot chassis, gently used. One careless owner.
Only obvious defect is its head has been crammed up up its own storage, but otherwise in perfectly serviceable condition.
The look on his face? Interesting, given that it wasn't a video call. Better not let Roko know you've been hacking into private camera systems again, Yay. Although, the reaction if a recording of that conversation happened to get leaked online would be, if anything, even *more* delicious. Just a thought. https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5616
The link doesn't work for me on PC. (Phone app works.) On PC the link is: https://web.archive.org/web/20260402033450/www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5616
So when does Roko come in and lowers the boom in her charming Bostonian accent?
As soon as she can get Aurelia into the car with her. The boom, she will be LOWERED!
Yay. So full of information, yet so clueless.
Data is not wisdom.
I'm just waiting for one of Union Robotics' customers, who has twice previously needed a replacement for their rear end, to come in for their third replacement.
(I think we all know what that replacement would be called, at least in the moment.)
Yay and Faye are about to do a live demonstration of the proverbial unstoppable force vs unmovable object 🫣
Tomorrow Faye is going to give Yay a lesson about boundaries ("I don't want to talk about it") as well as rip them a new supplemental storage pocket to put it in.
Them. (Yay is gender neutral.)
I think this has been going on long enough in the comic that Jeff should invent a buttfor and put it in the comic.
a buttfor who?
Cortisol levels high? There's a certain French dance song and a horse that can help with those.
Panel 3 - Yay is clearly a master of the theater arts.
Theater of the absurd?
Yay, you're *this* close to getting knocked on your spookybutt. Mama Faye is not gonna tolerate you bullying her kid.
Not classic bullying, I suppose, as Yay apparently is trying to be complimentary, I think, but Anh said she didn't want to talk about it and Yay persisted.
As for shipping Yay and Ahn? Well. Won't work, makes me tired just thinking about it. Yawns widely.
What you did there. 🧐
Yay searched 3.7 million databases just to verify that there were no entries for "buttfor."
Without ONCE running into anything by Jeph Jacques. :)
Yay remains a teen
Waiting for the epic karma dispensing after this hubric setup
Don't we all
Yay is always just whelmed
Just one dang thing after the other
What's a buttfor?
Sitting on, obviously.